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Movies on a Big Screen is an ongoing film festival / microcinema in Sacramento, CA.We show independent films, documentaries, shorts, host community based special events and on occasion have late night audience participation screenings. Many screenings have had filmmakers and guest speakers in attendance for Q&A. We do digital projection onto a large screen (not a big screen TV). Please see each film listing for venue and show time. Most movies are $5 unless otherwise noted. Directions:The Guild Theater Crocker Art Museum "The notion of Movies on a Big Screen fits perfectly within our distribution goals with Media That Matters, in that MOBS puts to screen films that may not be able to secure week-long runs in a commercial theater, but can highlight independent films and bring them to Sacramento - remember, the capital of California - and add to the great creative spirit that lives in that community." — Arts Engine/Media That Matters 
"Movies on a Big Screen puts on artsy, offbeat, totally inappropriate for children films regularly on Fridays." — Christopher Cabaldon, Mayor of West Sacramento, CA, State of the City Address, April 2009 |
Our final month at The Guild! Info soon on where we'll be next!
Mickey Rooney stars in a decidedly non-Andy Hardy role, in which he plays an auto mechanic who meets blonde femme fatale Vera Novak (Jeanne Cagney, sister of James Cagney). He convinces her to go out with him, but has no money for the date. He "borrows" 20 dollars from his employer's register, but before he can repay it, the missing money is discovered. This leads to a series of events drawing Rooney deeper and deeper into progressively more severe crimes that he commits - and in some cases, only believes he has committed. Peter Lorre is also featured in a small, but wonderfully slimy role as a penny arcade owner and ex-boyfriend of Vera. Considered by many to be Rooney's best work, it also has an ending that has often been viewed as too happy for noir, despite being a favorite film of many devotees of the genre. It was during this time, however, that Hollywood began to impose moralistic control over product, and few post-1940s noirs managed to escape that control. The film also features Jimmie Dodd, who was to become the host of "The Mickey Mouse Club," as well as an early uncredited appearance by the great Jack Elam! Sunday, May 13, 2012 7:30pm Admission: $5.00 Movies on a Big Screen at The Guild 2828 35th St, Sacramento, CA The Brain that Wouldn't Die 
We had Trash Film Orgy's Christy Savage pick a movie, and this was what she picked, since it's one of her personal favorites!!! Shown uncut with extra gore, all of the strippers and all of the cat fighting! Black and White. Dr. Bill Cortner's passion is unconventional surgical experimentation: transplantation, restoring life to the dead, etc etc. He's also got a house in the country, complete with a mad doctor lab, a deformed assistant, and an unseen "Thing" from prior failed experiments that's locked up in a closet. And he's not the best driver. En route to this "cabin," Bill crashes the car. Don't worry - Bill is fine, but his fiancée Jan Compton doesn't fare so well and ends up decapitated. Bill scoops up the head and sticks it on a plate, which somehow keeps it alive - and able to talk. Rather than just letting Jan die like she wants, he scours dive bars and strip joints to find his wife-to-be a new body, leaving Jan plenty of time to discover she can telepathically communicate with the "Thing." Bill returns to the lab with a disfigured man-hating figure model, and all kinds of low budget hell breaks loose! The Brain That Wouldn't Die would later be largely influential on Frank Henenlotter's Franenhooker, as well as Stuart Gordon's Re-Animator. Sunday, May 20, 2012 7:30pm Admission: Free (donations accepted) Movies on a Big Screen at The Guild 2828 35th St, Sacramento, CA The Greenest Building 
Presented in conjunction with the Sacramento Old City Association. Local historian William Burg will also be speaking about local historic districts and Oak Park following the film. Over the next 20 years, one third of our nation's existing building stock (over 82 billion square feet) will be demolished in order to replace seemingly inefficient buildings with energy efficient "green" buildings. Is demolition on this scale really the best use of natural, social and economic resources? Or, like urban renewal projects of the 1960's, is it part of a well-intentioned planning strategy with devastating environmental and cultural consequences? "The Greenest Building" provides a compelling argument for conservation, rehabilitation and adaptive reuse of our existing building stock as the single most effective strategy for reducing, reusing and recycling one of our most important consumer products-our buildings. Sunday, May 27, 2012 7:30pm Admission: $5.00 Movies on a Big Screen at The Guild 2828 35th St, Sacramento, CA Gamera the Invincible 
It's our last night at The Guild, and what other way to go out than with wholesale destruction brought on by a giant flying turtle?!?!? As tensions between America and the Soviet Union rise to a fever pitch, U.S. troops shoot down a Russian bomber which is flying low in an Arctic region. The bomber crashes, and its payload of hydrogen bombs explode upon impact. The blast releases and awakens Gamera, a gigantic fire-breathing turtle which had been frozen under the ice since prehistoric times. The newly revived monster makes his way to Tokyo, Japan, where he begins to lay waste to the city. Initial attempts to stop the testudine fail, forcing mankind to resort to Plan Z!! Thespians 
Every performer starts somewhere and many of them started in their high school thespian troupe. For kids in Florida that means possibly ending up performing on a stage for over 7,000 other students who share their passion. "Thespians" is the story of 4 of those troupes as they embark on the incredible journey of preparing for the largest high school theatre festival in the world. Thespians explores the wins, the losses and the lessons which lead us to understand that the "superior" ratings and accolades are not actually the goal - but it is the journey itself - one which begins as all theatre does - in a rehearsal room somewhere with "two boards and a passion." It is not ultimately the competition that motivates the students and wins our hearts. It is the recognition that this is every performer's story - transcending time and place to resonate with that initial spark - that calling and passion which compels all performers to forge through endless auditions and continuous rehearsals just for the chance to stand on a stage and connect; to one another, to the audience, and ultimately to themselves. |
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